Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-05
MISS wINsTON,S LUCK.
The Romance of n Treasury Count
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Washington special 10 the Chicago MALL
The young lady clerk in the Trea-
sury who recently made the gratifying
discovery that a small farm near Biz
mingham, Ala, which her family has
long owned, and supposed to be next
TO worthless, is worth enough to make
hex independent, is something of a
beauty, and will well become
the station TO which her wealth
viii entitle ner. In person she
is tall and graceful. Her fea-
lures could hardly be called eitherregu-
lar or classic, yet with her clear white
aud pink complexion, her thick, raven
black hair, and pair of splendid black
eyes, they would certainly admit her to
conspicuous place among the far
famed, dalk-eyed southern beauties.
She came to Washington late in the '70s
in company with her mother and an
aunt, Ter mothers sister, her father
having died some years before. They had
some means, but not enough to enable
item tosnOve III circle to which they
had evidently been accustomed in tho
South. The aunt secured a place i'll
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving,
and later on Rose" was given place
as amoney-counter IN the Office of the
treasurer. Her salary was 5000 year
at first, but was gradually advanced
from time to time until it was 81, 400,
when the happy discovery was made
recently that she was heiress to pro-
perty supposed to be worth nearly
S2,0U0,oC0. Her earnings, together
with the income from their other
property in the South-all that was
heretofore supposed to be valuable
enabled mother and daughter to live
comfortably, and they always moved in
the better, though not, of course, the
Understandable, circles CT society.
Three years ago this summer the
present heiress, then the pretty Trea-
sury clerk, met Mr.. Frank Macarthur
at a clearinghouse on Fourteenth
street near K, in which the family had
recently taken rooms. The house, if
not in the fashionable quarter, was GER
tainly well up in the region of eminent
responsibility. There were lots OF
Young men and maidens in tue neigh
borhoOd who were combining their
lives and fortunes "for better or
for worse until death did them
part" and perhaps tins may have in
clined them to think seriously of a flu
ture arrangement of the kind for them
selves, or perhaps it may have happen
ed lust as other intense likings of the
kind come about. Possibly their land
lady NAV have taken a sly interest IN
their welfare, as Washington landladies
frequently DO. Anyway it soon came
about that young Macarthur was seated
next TO Miss "ROse" at table, and in a
short space of time they kere much
seen together at the theatre and at So
cial gatherings.
MacAlther hailed from Wisconsin
and was a son of the ex-Judge OF the
Supreme Court of the district. He
had begun years before as q clerk in
the Interior Department. and had risen
10 he Judge of the interference division
of tie Patent Office, very honorable
position, but not very lucrative. His
constant study and long familiarity
with interfereuces did not permit him
to allow anything to interfere with his
loye-making, and in time it came to be
generally understood .that he and the
dark-eyed Rose were engaged. Time
went on, but still they were not mar
ried. Nobody knew why, but the gos-
sips, of whom there are legions in the
capital, speculated long and deeply as
TO the reason. Their wise conclusion
in most instances was that both were
ambitious, and for that reason were I'M
willing to unite their fortunes until
their prospects could be SO shaped that
they could have a home to suit them.
Be that as il may, they remained single.
and shortly after Mr.. Cleveland was in
augurated young Macarthur resigned,
went to New York, and formed part
nership for the practice of patent law.
His abilities had already won him re-
cognition and were beginning to bring
him satisfactory income when the
great good fortune befel his bride-ex-
pectant
Last Saturday the following modest
notice appeared in the Washington
papers:
"Miss Sarah Winston and Mr.. Frank
Macarthur were married yesterday
afternoon at the residence OF Mr.. T.
w. Nell, on + street northwest. The
bride is a granddaughter of the late
Governor Winston, of Alabama, and
the groom is son of Judge Arthur
Macarthur"
The bride and groom have many
friends in Washington, who heartily
wish them long life and happiness, but
there are doubtless many young men
heIeabouts who heartily wish they had
made better use Of their opportunities
in the days when it wasn't known or
suspected that "Rose Winston was
heiress 10 the best paying land in the